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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. Introduction: Thomas Kuhn and the 20th century philosophy of science. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Preface. 2. The Structure I. History of science as the source of a new view of science; the structure of the book. 3. The Structure II-III. The path to normal science and its constitution. 4. The Structure IV-V. Normal science as puzzle solving; priority of paradigm. 5. The Structure Vi-VII. Anomaly and the emergence of new discoveries; the crisis and emergence of new theories. 6. The Structure VIII. The answer to crisis; the role of counterexamples. 7. The Structure IX. The constitution and the necessity of scientific revolutions. 8. The Structure X. Revolutions as changes of world-view. 9. The Structure XI-XII. Invisibility of revolutions and the role of textbooks. Revulution's result. 10. The Structure XIII. Scientific revolutions and progress. 11. Postscript 1-3. The problem of the paradigm. Paradigm as the system of group commitments and as an example. 12. Postscript 4-7. Construction and intuition, incommensurability and relativism, scientificity. 13. Further developments: Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend, science studies.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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Complementing the lecture course Philosophy of Science. We read the seminal book by Thomas Kuhn - the work is organized in such a way that everybody reads the required portion of the text at home, and in the class we discuss the key passagaes and the arising questions and problems.
After successfully passing the course, students will be able to teach a similar class (on beginners' level), and will improve their capacity to teach reading classes in general. They will improve their understanding Kuhn's position and the connected problems. They will be able to lecture on the topics of the class on elementary level (load 2-3 hours). And they will improve their capacity to pursue further study of the related topics.
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Prerequisites
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students must be able to read English (some 15-20 pages a week) and to annotate a slightly difficult text
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Be present in the class (two absentions tolerated), do the required home reading (with some analysis), participate actively in the discussion, 1x in semester you'll be asked (in advance) to provide a summary (minutes) of the previous class.
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Recommended literature
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Bird, A. Thomas Kuhn. Chesham, 2000.
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Hoyningen-Huene, P. Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn's Philosophy of Science. Chicago, 1993.
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Kuhn, T., S. Sturktura vědeckých revolucí. Praha, 2019.
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Kuhn, T., S. The Road since Structure. Chicago, 2000.
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Kuhn, T., S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago, 2012.
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Lakatos, I., Musgrave, A. (edd). Critism and the Growth of Knowledge. Cambridge, 1970.
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